Piscidia
Piscidia piscipula · Plant · Fabaceae
Piscidia suits patients who need rapid, deep sedation from pain, particularly toothache. The remedy produces a narcotic-like sleep without the unpleasant after-effects of Opium. Profuse sweating follows the wave of intense heat that precedes sleep.
Key symptoms
- Sudden, profound, irresistible sleep onset
- Sleep so deep patient remained motionless for twelve hours
- Awakens completely free from every pain or ache
- Violent sensation of heat spreading to body surface
- Profuse diaphoresis bursting from every pore following heat
- Unpleasant acrimony in mouth when chewed
Better (amelioration)
- After twelve hours of deep sleep — complete freedom from pain
Piscidia erythrina. Jamaica Dog-wood. N. O. Leguminosæ. Tincture of root bark obtained when the plant is in flower, before leaf.
Clinical
Fever. Sleep, sudden. Sweat, profuse.
Characteristics
The pounded leaves and young branches of Piscidia eryth. and some allied species are used, like Cocculus, for poisoning fish─hence the name Piscidia (Piscis-cædere). The experiment recorded in Allen is by W. Hamilton, who took a drachm of the tincture in water for toothache, and went off to sleep with such suddenness that when he awoke, twelve hours later, he was still holding the glass and vial from which he had taken the dose.
8. Mouth
When chewed, unpleasant acrimony in mouth, like that of Mezer.
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